Pritt Archive contents

Lenin Peace Prize medal, in case of issue

Diploma for Deutsche Friedensmedaille 14 November 1960, in folder; medal

Diploma for Joliot-Curie Peace Medal 1969, in folder. World Council of Peace gold medal

Testimonial Diploma from Soviet Peace Committee 1969, in folder; medal

Presentation photo album to Mrs Marie Pritt as a memento of her visit to the USSR, V.O.K.S., Moscow June-July 1946.

Freedom of Leipzig 22 September 1957. Vellum scroll in gilt-embossed leather tube and presentation box.

Humbolt University of Berlin, Hon Doctorate of Law 12 November 1960, parchment scroll in leather tube and presentation box. photos of him receiving award

Humboldt University of Berlin 1946 Reopening medal (obverse showing Humboldt brothers; bronze, 69 mm., in case of issue)

Universitas Litterarum Serdicensis, Hon Doctorate of Law, Sofia 12 October 1960. Illuminated vellum scroll in tube with photos of presentation. Text in cyrillic and Latin.

Impressive brown leather box, (cover w/ snap-on buckle) gold-engraved inscription on front "D.N. Pritt zum 70. Geburtstag... Vereinigung Demokratischer Juristen Deutschlands", w/ sticker "Marshall Buck & Cassen 282" on reverse; box contains 24 photos (presumably developed from original film) of documents, pictures etc. (e.g. of Dimitrov) pertaining to Reichstag Fire Trial.

Leather bound album and magnetic tape "Anklagefsch.rift in der Straffache gegen Van der Lubbe v. Genossen 15J86.33", in leather bound presentation box with gilt-embossed arms of Leipzig.

Diploma (1963) for DDR Medaille für Kampfer Gegen den Faschismus 1933-45, in folder; medal; photo of him receiving award

89 mm. porcelain white "medal" celebrating Leipzig 800 yrs., in green (felt?) case w/ Leipzig arms on cover

Cased, 92 mm. diameter, porcelain chocolate-colored "medal" depicting "Völkerschlacht Denkmal Leipzig".

Georgi Dimitrov Museum, Leipzig, presentation photo album, 1st page inscribed "Herrn Kronanwalt Professor D. N. Pritt... zur Erinnerung an die Wider-...stand der ständigen Ausstellung... des Georgi Dimitrov Museums am... 25.9.1965".

Leipzig presentation photo album for the celebrations 1165-1965, with 43 pages of photos of events at the Georgi Dimitrov Museum, incl. photos showing Pritt there

Bentham Committee for Poor Litigants, testimonial album bound in vellum with gilt-embossed title to Pritt who was Chairman from 1929 until 1937 when he resigned the position.

Presentation folder "Erinnerung an den Friedensprozess in Düsseldorf vom 10. November 1959 bis 8. April 1960". Signed by 7 men, (evidently "activist" brass) depicted in attached photo.

Presentation folder (w/ green cover) containing photo of 16 men & 3 women, + handwritten inscription translating roughly as "In memory of the visit of the brigade "D.N. Pritt", Leipzig, 30 May 1969"

Cased, 68 mm. diameter, bronze medallion w/ profile of Ho Chi Minh, & inscription "Viet Nam Dan Chu Cong Hoa" [Constitution of the Dem. Republic of Viet Nam] "Ho Chi Minh".

Box file of various photographs of Pritt etc.

Denis Pritt was educated at Winchester, London University, Germany, Switzerland and Spain. He obtained an LLB from London University and was called to the Bar, Middle Temple, in 1909, he retired from practice in 1960.
He was a Labour MP for Hammersmith North from 1935-1950, despite being expelled from the Labour Party in 1940. He was also Professor of Law at the University of Ghana, 1965-1966, chairman of the Howard League for Penal Reform and chairman of the Bentham Committee for Poor Litigants. In addition his interest in peace led him to become president of the British Peace Committee and a member of the World Peace Council. He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1954.